e want of this in the
maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has often been an
annoyance to me, for it frequently happens that one or both of two maps
including the same district are without date, {397} and when they differ in
some of the minor details, it requires some time and trouble to find, from
other sources, which is the most modern, and therefore likely to be the
most accurate.

J. S. WARDEN.

_Walton._--The following cotemporary notice of the decease and character of
honest Isaac's son, is from a MS. Diary of the Rev. John Lewis, Rector of
Chalfield and Curate of Tilbury:

"1719, Dec. 29. Mr. Canon Walton of Polshott died at Salisbury; he was
one of the members of the clergy club that meets at Melksham, and a
very pious, sober, learned, inoffensive, charitable, good man."

E. D.

_Whittington's Stone on Highgate Hill._--It is well that there is a "N. &
Q." to record the removal and disappearance of noted objects and relics of
antiquity, as one after another disappears before the destroying hand of
Time, and more ruthless and relentless spirit of enterprise. I have to ask
you on the present occasion to record the removal of Whittington's stone on
Highgate Hill. I discovered it as I strolled up the hill a few days since.
I was informed that it was removed about a fortnight since, and a
public-house is now being built where it stood.

TEE BEE.

_Turkey and France._--The following fact, taken from the foreign
correspondence of _The Times_, may suitably seek perpetuity in a corner of
"N. & Q."

"I wish to mention a curious fact connected with the port of Toulon,
and with the long existing relations between France and Turkey, and
which I have not seen mentioned, although it is recorded in the
municipal archives of this town. In the year 1543, the sultan, Selim
II., at the request of the King of France, sent a large army and fleet
to his assistance, under the command of the celebrated Turkish admiral
Barbarossa, who, according to the record, was the grandson of a French
renegade. This army and fleet occupied the town and port of Toulon at
the express wish of Francis I., from the end of September 1543, to the
end of March 1544. And on this day, the last of March 1854, a French
army and fleet has sailed from the same port of Toulon to succour the
descendant of the Sultan Selim in his distress. What a remarkable
example of the ri